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 A U D ( 50? ) A V E •withftanding of any teftament the deceafed could make. and fo in time it became the power of the man wh© caufarum negotiorumque audentia CantuariAn ambafiador is not fubjedt to the right of aubane; isenfiscalled feu officinalis. and the Switz, Savoyards, Scots, and Portuguefe, are Chamberauditor, of Audience. See Chamber. alfo exempted, being deemed natives and regnicoles. a regular hearing and examination of ah acAUBE, a river of France, which, arifing in the fouth- AUDIT, by fome proper officers, appointed for that pureaft part of Champaigne, runs north-weft, and falls count pofe. into the Seine below Plancy. AUBIGNE, a town of France, in the province0of Ber- AUDITOR, in a general fenfe, a hearer, or one who ry, and government of Orleans, fituated in 2 20 JL. liftens' and attends to any thing. Auditor, according to our law, is an officer of the long, and 47° 3' N. lat. AUBIN, or St Aubin, a town of Brittany in France; king, or fome other great perfon, who, by examining yearly the accounts of the under-officers, makes up a its W. long, being i° 30', andN. lat. 48° ij'. Aubin, in horfemanfnip, a broken kind of gate, be- general book, with the difference between their icceipts and charges, and their allowances to allocations. tween an amble and a gallop, accounted a defedt. AUBURN, a market-town in Wilthlhire,, fituated about Auditor of the receipts, is an officer of the exchequer 24 miles weft of Reading, in i° 40 W. long, and who files the tellers bills, makes an entry of them, and gives the lord-treafurer a certificate of the moji° 30' N. lat. AUBUSSON, a town a France, in the province of ney received the week before. He alfo makes debenMarche, and government of Lyonois : E. long. 20 ij', tures to every teller, before they receive any money, 0 and take their accounts. He keeps the black book of and N. lat. 45 55'. AUCTION, a kind of public fale, very much in ufe for receipts, and the treafurer’s key of the treafury, and houfehold-goods, books, plate, &c. By this method fees every teller’s money locked up in the new treaof fale the higheft bidder is always the buyer. This fury. was originally a kind of fale among the ancient Ro- Auditors of the revenue, or of the exchequer, officers mans, performed by the public crier fub bafla,~t* e. who take the accounts of thofe who colle<fl the reveunder a fpear ftuck up on that occafion, and by fome nues and taxes raifed by parliament, and take the acmagiftrate, who made good the fale by delivery of the counts of the ffieriffs, efcheators, colleftots, tenants, goods. and cuftomers, and fet them down in a book, and perAuction by inch of candle. See Candle. fedt them. AUDE, a river of France, which, taking its rife in the Auditors of the prejl and imprejl, are officers of the Pyrenees, runs northwards by Alet and Carcaflbne; exchequer, who take and make up the accounts of and from thence turning eaftward through Languedoc, Ireland, Berwick, the mint, and of any money imfalls into the Mediterranean, a little to the north-eaft preffed to any man for the king’s fervice. of Narbonne. Auditors collegiate, conventual, See. officers formerAUDIANISM, the fame with anthropomorphifm. See ly appointed in colleges, &c. to examine and pafs Anthropomorphites. their accounts. AUDIENCE, given to ambafladors, ceremonies obfer- Auditory nerves, in anatomy. See p. 249. ved in courts, at the admiffion of ambaffadors, or AVAIL of marriage, in Scots law, that cafualty in public minifters, to a hearing. ward-holding, by which the fuperior was intitled to a In England, audience is given to ambafladors in the fum from his vaffal, upon his attaining the age prefence-chamber; to envoys and refidents, in a gal- certain of puberty, as the value or avail of his tocher. See lery, clofet, or in any place where the king happens Scots tit. Of cafualties due to the fuperior. to be. Upon being admitted, as is the cuftom of all AVEIN, Law, in the duchy of Luxemburg, remarkcourts, they make three bows, after which they“ cover able for aa town vidtory and (it down; but not before the king is covered and Spaniards in 1635.which the French obtained over the fat down, and has given them the fign to put on their AVELLANA, in botany. See Corylus. hats. purgatrix, a name fometimes given to the When the king does not care to have them cover- Avellana fruit of the ricinus. See Ricinus. ed, and fit, he himfelf ftands uncovered; which is ta AVELLANE, in heraldry, a crofs, the quarters of which ken as a flight. refemble a filbert-nut. Sylvanus Morgan At Conftantinople, minifters ufually have audience fomewhat fays, that it is the crofs which enfignS the mound of of the prime vizier. authority, globe. Aud 1 en c..-court, a court belonging to the archbiflrop AVELLINO,or athetownfovereign’s of the kingdom of Naples, and of Canterbury, of equal authority with the arches- province of Principata, fituated 25 miles eaft court, though inferior both in dignity and antiquity. of the city of Naples, 'in iy° 20about E. long, and 410 The original of this court was, becaufe the archbiftiop N. lat. of Canterbury heard feveral caufes extrajudicially at the angel Gabriel’s fallutation of the - home in h s own palace ; in 'which, before he would AVE-MARIA, the Virgin Mary, when he brought her the tidings of finally determine any thing, he ufually committed the incarnation.—It become a prayer or form of them to be difcuffed by men learned in the civil and devotion in the Romifliis church. Their chaplets and canon laws, whom, thereupon, he called his auditors ; rofaries are divided into fo many ave-maries, and fo Vol. I. No. 22. 3 6M many